Al-Awda West Coast Conference - Educating, Advocating, and Organizing For The Return

Educating, Advocating, and Organizing For The Return
Fifth Al-Awda West Coast Regional Conference

Hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine @ SDSU, UCSD and USD, and
Al-Awda San Diego, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

Where: La Mesa Community Center, 4975 Memorial Drive, La Mesa, CA
91942
(please note we changed the venue)

LEARN about the Palestinian refugee crisis and what is happening
here on the West Coast

SHARE IDEAS
with fellow activists and help empower the right to return
movement at large

ACT NOW!
your participation is urgently needed in the months ahead! This is
your chance!

One-Day Conference
Saturday February 13, 2010, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Program: Strategy & tactics discussions will include panels on
Student Activism, Refugee Support, Media Activism, and
preparations for the upcoming Annual International Al-Awda
Convention. Speakers will include Dr. Jess Ghannam, Chair of
Al-Awda's National Coordinating Committee, Mazen Almoukdad,
Al-Awda Refugee Support Activist, Adam Shapiro, activist
filmmaker, among others. There will also be a special presentation
of personal experience by a Palestinian refugee recently arrived
from Al-Waleed camp in Iraq.

For a tentative schedule with more details of the one day
conference, visit this page.

Conference is free of charge!!

The conference will be followed by

Dinner Banquet - Celebrating 10 Years of Al-Awda!
When: 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm (doors open 6:00 pm)

Banquet Includes: Keynote Address by Dr. Jamal Nassar, Dean of the
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State
University, San Bernardino; Dabke; and Delicious Arabic Food (all
Halal)

Banquet Dinner Tickets: General $25.00; Student $15.00; Children
under 5 free

To get your tickets, please go to
http://al-awdacal.org/dinner.html or contact 760-918-9441 Monday
to Friday 9 AM to 5 PM

(Please note that attendance at the conference is not required for
attendance at the dinner and vice versa)

Sponsorship: We welcome individual and organizational sponsorship
of The Fifth Al-Awda West Coast Regional Conference. All Sponsors
will be listed in the printed program of the conference and
acknowledged at the Ten Years of Al-Awda Celebration Dinner unless
otherwise requested. Underwriters will each also have a table for
eight people reserved for them at the Dinner Celebration. For more
information, please go to this sponsorship page.

Suggested accommodation for out of town guests see: Hotel circle
http://www.hotelcircle.net

Flyer (color): Fifth Al-Awda West Coast Regional Conference
Flyer: Fifth Al-Awda West Coast Regional Conference

Directions to Conference and Banquet: Take the Spring St exit from
I-8 E toward El Centro (6.8 miles). Merge onto 13A (85 ft). Slight
left to stay on 13A (315 ft). Continue onto Spring Street (0.1
mile). Turn left at University Ave (0.4 miles). Turn left at
Memorial Dr.

Parking is free. Plenty available.
For more information, contact:

SJP @ SDSU, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182; Tel:
661-992-3281 email: sjp.sdsu@googlemail.com or Al-Awda San Diego:
info@al-awdasandiego.org, Tel: 760-918-9441
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-918-9441
Fax: 760-918-9442
Email: info@al-awdacal.org
WEB: http://al-awdacal.org





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